Little Denmark Dash is a game for kids and their families, made by KIZA, Inc. The short version: Little Denmark Dash does not collect, store or share any personal information, from children or from anyone else. When Apple's Game Center is on (it is in Classic Mode, unless you switch it off), Apple keeps the game's scores and badges in your Game Center account. If iCloud is on, your progress is also kept in your own iCloud, so it's the same on your other devices. We can't see either.
What the app collects
Nothing. Little Denmark Dash has:
- no ads and no advertising identifiers,
- no analytics, crash reporting or other third-party code,
- no accounts of our own, and no chat or sharing (Game Center, below, is Apple's, and can be switched off),
- no in-app purchases,
- no links out of the app,
- no servers of our own. The game never talks to us, and goes online only for Game Center, when it's on, and to sync your progress through your own iCloud.
The game may show the names of real businesses from the Santa Ynez Valley on signs and banners, as part of the pictures. They are only art: they don't link anywhere, and the game sends those businesses nothing.
Apart from Game Center and iCloud, the only time the app involves the internet is the “Email Us” button (see “If you email us” below), which opens a draft in your device's email app. Your email app, not Little Denmark Dash, sends it, and only if you tap Send.
Game Center (optional)
Game Center is Apple's service for leaderboards and badges (Apple calls them achievements). In Little Denmark Dash it is on in Classic Mode and off in Kid Mode, until you choose otherwise with the Game Center switch in Settings. Choosing Classic Mode signs in to Game Center, the way most games do; if the device isn't signed in yet, Apple asks, and you can say no.
- When it's on, the game signs in to the device's Game Center account and, when a level is finished, sends Apple any badges earned and, in Classic Mode, the level's fastest time, the game's high score, and the number of æbleskiver caught in all. It also tells Game Center which level is being played, so Apple's Games app can offer a way back into it. Apple keeps all this and shows it in Game Center, under Apple's own privacy policy.
- What others see: Game Center leaderboards are visible to other Game Center players, with the player's Game Center nickname. A parent can limit this in Screen Time (Content & Privacy Restrictions, Game Center).
- What we see: the game sends us nothing, and Apple doesn't give us players' names, Apple Accounts, or contact details. Game Center gives the game a player ID that only works within our games; the game keeps it on the device, only to remember which scores it has already sent, and never sends it anywhere. Like anyone, we can look at the public leaderboards, and we use them only to remove scores that are clearly broken.
- In Kid Mode, the game doesn't show Game Center buttons outside Settings, so a child doesn't wander into the leaderboards, and Kid Mode sends no scores. In Classic Mode the buttons are on the title screen and at the end of a level, and players can challenge their Game Center friends to beat a time or score.
- Turning it off in Settings, in either mode, stops the game sending anything, and it stays off. To remove what Apple already keeps, use the Game Center settings on the device or contact Apple.
What the app saves
The app saves a few things so the game works: which levels you've reached, the paper-cut hearts you've found, your best scores, which story pages you've already seen, and your totals and badge progress (such as how many æbleskiver you've caught in all), with a random number the app makes once, so the totals from two of your devices add up instead of overwriting each other (it isn't tied to you, and goes nowhere but your own iCloud). On the device only, it also keeps a game in progress (so you can pick up where you left off), your settings (Kid Mode or Classic Mode, sound, music, vibration, the button style, the holiday looks, and whether Game Center is on), and, when Game Center is on, which scores it has already sent.
iCloud
If iCloud is on for the device, your progress (not your settings or a game in progress) is also kept in your own iCloud account, so the game is the same on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Apple keeps it, under Apple's own privacy policy, and we can't see it. To keep progress on one device only, turn iCloud off for Little Denmark Dash in the device's settings. Deleting the app deletes what's on that device; what's in iCloud can be deleted in the device's iCloud storage settings.
Buying the game
Little Denmark Dash is a paid download from Apple's App Store, with no in-app purchases. Apple handles the payment and Family Sharing, under Apple's own privacy policy. We never see your name, Apple Account, or payment details. The game sends nothing to Apple or anyone else, except Game Center scores and badges if it's switched on, and your progress to your own iCloud.
If you email us
Settings and Help have an “Email Us” button (on Apple TV, they show our address instead). If you write to us, we get your email address and your message. To help us help you, the draft the app opens also lists the app version, the device model, the system version, and the app's language. You can change or delete any of it before sending. We use emails only to answer you, never for marketing, and keep them only as long as we need them to help you.
Children's privacy
Little Denmark Dash is made for older kids and grown-ups first, and is safe for children ages 6 to 8. It is designed to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The app collects nothing from children. Kid Mode, the mode for children, starts with Game Center off. A child under 13 can use Game Center only through an Apple Account a parent set up in Family Sharing, and the parent controls it with Screen Time.
Because the game isn't made for young children, Settings and Help open without a grown-up question, so a child could open the email draft. Nothing is sent unless someone taps Send in the email app. If we get an email that seems to be from a child under 13, we reply once, if a reply is needed, and then delete it and the address. If you'd like an email you sent us deleted, just ask.
Your California privacy rights
California law (the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act) gives California residents the right to know what personal information a business collects about them, to have it deleted or corrected, to opt out of its sale or sharing, to limit the use of sensitive personal information, and not to be treated differently for using any of these rights. Here is where Little Denmark Dash stands:
- The app collects no personal information, including sensitive personal information (Game Center, when it's on, and iCloud are Apple's services, run under Apple's privacy policy). The only personal information we have is what people choose to email us (identifiers: an email address, and the message itself), used only to reply.
- We do not sell or share personal information, and we never have, including that of anyone under 16.
- We do not disclose personal information to anyone for their direct marketing (California's “Shine the Light” law).
You can still ask us about any of these rights by emailing us (below). We'll answer within 45 days, and asking never changes how the app works for you.
Do Not Track
Neither the app nor this website tracks you across other sites and apps, so a browser's Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal has nothing to switch off. We'd honor it if it did.
This website
This website doesn't use cookies or advertising trackers, and loads no third-party content (even its fonts are served from here). Like most websites, it keeps general records of its traffic: our hosting provider keeps standard server logs (such as IP addresses and browser type) for security and reliability, and we count visits to the short links on our printed QR codes, with the time, the rough location (city, region and country, worked out from the connection, never from your device), the kind of device and browser, and the page the visit came from. These records tell us how many people visit and which flyers get used. We don't use them to identify anyone, and we never sell or share them.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change ever meant the app would collect something, we'd say so on this page before that version of the app came out.
Contact
KIZA, Inc. · games@kiza.us